Canalside Duo

Saturday, October 9

1:00-5:00pm

and Sunday, October 10 1:00-4:00pm

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Pete Coccorese picked up a guitar when he was ten years old and hasn't put one down since. In the early 70’s he started the band Freeway, a mix of country rock, acid rock, rock and roll and blues (I know, huh?). Next was a stint with Backstreet Angel, a six piece band with keyboards and Sax playing a lot of rhythm and blues. He then began playing solo acoustic gigs at a variety of dive bars in NJ.  Along the way he reconnected with Randy Carone, one of the other players from Freeway. They started playing as an acoustic duo for a few years until they added Rocky Farrell and drummer Tim Neher and played a ton of venues as The Trouble Boys. After that, Rocky, Randy and Pete started playing as Rocky And His Friends before finding drummer Mike Ratti in 2009. That iteration of the band has played here at Villa Milagro many times.

​Rocky Farrell began playing bass in the late 70s and has played in numerous NJ bands over the years. He has played alongside Canalside guitarist and vocalist Pete Coccorese off and on since 1980. Most recently playing with the band Rocky & His Friends, which first began entertaining Villa Milagro music lovers way back in 2008. Rocky has always enjoyed inhabiting the role that the bass plays in music: being part of the rhythm section, linking rhythm to harmony, and supporting the vocal. In other words, both anchoring the music yet moving it forward.